Przemiany w kształceniu nauczycieli wczesnej edukacji w XXI w. w Polsce

The article presents the issue of educating teachers of preschool and early childhood education in Poland against the background of social changes after 1989. Despite efforts to provide teachers with full higher education, regulations made it possible to employ people without a master’s degree to work with children. This was due to the lack of teachers of a given specialisation and resulted from certain legal solutions in higher education. Many universities offered faculties and specialisations in this area, but failed to fully ensure a sufficient level of education. The text presents negative phenomena related to the lack of proper education standards. Recent changes in the standards of teacher preparation have forced an increase in the level of requirements for the education of preschool teachers, but the author remains doubtful about some solutions